GOP lawmaker says Benghazi response was political

Congress intends to focus on details of deadly attack

2:17 AM,
May 7, 2013

Written by

Oren Dorell
| USA Today

Testimony from three State Department officials scheduled to appear at a hearing on Capitol Hill Wednesday will show that politics played a role from the start in the government's handling of the Sept. 11 attack on the U.S. mission in Benghazi, Libya, a Republican lawmaker says.

The hearing will explore why the department never activated its Foreign Emergency Support Team, a unit comprised of security and intelligence professionals who specialize in responding to crises, said Rep. Jason Chaffetz, R-Utah.

Chaffetz believes the reason is that activating the team, whose members have ...